butterflies are thoughts is in place, rigged up and ready for anyone to run their nervous system in front of it.
the sound coming from the pipes is super quiet, with the occasional burst of water, dripping or a bang. while all 4 pipes are miked, only 2 make any discernible noise through the speakers. i quite like the subtlety as it speaks to a more hidden infrastructure under the facade.
the title of this work is something a little bit different than the titles i normally use. often my titles are simply descriptions of the work, eg - network, tap, charging etc. Although there are variances and there never really is any hard and fast rule about naming my work. i think it was mattise that said a title can be like another colour for the artwork.
my work is becoming more and more refined in its exploration of system. for this work, there is an assemblage of elements that function together as a system. several of my works have been like this, sometimes kinetically so. the implication, hopefully, in this work is that technology is investigating its own material matter. the speaker lamps monitor the water/gas/air flow of the pipes and use this information to 'interrogate' a cobblestone made of melbourne bluestone.
in this way, the infrastructure of our cultural creations engage with the natural elements that make them up and ultimately generate them. so, the title really is just a reference to the way in which one thing can translate as another thing in a different context. it is designed to elicit a very direct connection to nature, perhaps even sentimentally so, as well as intellectual concepts. almost as if to say, 'pretty nature is like an idea'. or that, more spefically, something from nature might be a perfect metaphor for something we humans can invent in our heads.
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